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My Drawing Told Me To Tell You

Hello out there! My recovery from foot surgery is going well. I’ve spent some of the “couch time” making little colored pencil drawings. Shortly after I finished them (and like so many things in my…

MelindaJanuary 25, 2025

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Up and Out

Up and Out More garrulous gazing at the navel of the world. It was morning, one of a long string of them spent on the couch, post-surgical leg consistently elevated. My eyes lifted to my…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2025

Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Writing

When releasing perfectionism, rivers pour forth.

This morning, on the couch. Cast-bound leg duly elevated, I was contemplating the merits of ice pack vs. heat for the unhappy shoulder/neck. I’ve been working on surrender as fighting the pain has been futile.…

MelindaDecember 25, 2024

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All by way of saying…

To hear me read this, click below: This poem was published last week in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, a beautiful publication available here: Listen Sharing my home with four-legged Zen masters— liquid beings…

MelindaOctober 22, 2024

Healing Mindfulness Nature Poem Writing

Apple Days

To hear me read this, click here: Don’t groan. There is room for another apple poem. No one is counting how many have been penned, sung, stamped into books and magazines. There is no…

MelindaOctober 2, 2024

Death and Dying Hope Mindfulness Nature

The Turning

Gratitude for Autumn Leaves, Walking Today, in my silence, I can hear late September speaking with New England tongues to my open hands. Gratitude blossoms in colors; green and yellow, early russet and flaming orange.…

MelindaSeptember 30, 2024

Love Nature Poem Writing

New Poem Published

I’m pleased that one of my pieces, “Honeymoon” was just published in Last Stanza Poetry Journal. The journal is available in hardcover, softcover, and on Kindle. Last Stanza is a beautiful journal, so if you’ve…

MelindaApril 23, 2024

Family Love Nature Parenting Poem Poetry

Farther

I’m so pleased that my poem, “Farther”, which I share with you below, was just published in the Spring 2024 issue of Metonym Literary Journal. Metonym is a print journal, available for sale through their…

MelindaMarch 14, 2024

Death and Dying Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

The Continuing Saga of Little Stream

A 2022 Story Part 11 You can read part 10 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/little-stream-an…22-story-part-10 Part 11 “Lily Pond?” Little Stream called out again and again without answer into the bright air. Her voice was thin and…

MelindaFebruary 7, 2024

My Drawing Told Me To Tell You

Up and Out

Apple Days

The Turning

New Poem Published

Farther

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